2016

Of all the illnesses in industrial society, diabetes takes the greatest toll. Over 100,000 people die from complications of diabetes each year. Another million lose quality of life due to metabolic syndrome. Diabetes adds $135 billion to the annual cost of healthcare in the U.S.1 Yet diabetes remains avoidable, treatable, and reversible.

In this study we describe the potential of electrospun curcumin-loaded poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)/gum tragacanth (GT) (PCL/GT/Cur) nanofibers for woun…

People with a rare autoimmune disorder produce autoimmune antibodies that appear to be linked to a reduced occurrence of type 1 diabetes, new research has found. The study suggests these antibodies could limit immune-related diseases and may have therapeutic potential.

Bicarbonate supplementation preserves renal function in experimental chronic kidney disease (CKD), but whether the same benefit occurs in humans is unknown. Here, we randomly assigned 134 adult patients with CKD (creatinine clearance [CrCl] 15 to 30 ml/min ...

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Blueberries are put to the test against insulin resistance, oxidation, and DNA damage. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Berries pack such a nutritional punch that I recommend eating at least ½ cup a day in my Daily Dozen Checklist (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-gregers-daily-dozen-checklist) (download the free iPhone (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr.-gregers-daily-dozen/id1060700802?mt=8) or Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nutritionfacts.dailydozen), or print the checklist here (https://nutritionfacts.org/daily-dozen-challenge/)). More benefits of blueberries include: • The Benefits of Acai vs. Blueberries for Artery Function (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Benefits-of-Acai-vs-Blueberries-for-Artery-Function) • Benefits of Blueberries for Artery Function (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-blueberries-for-artery-function/) • Benefits of Blueberries for Blood Pressure May Be Blocked by Yogurt (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Benefits-of-Blueberries-for-Blood-Pressure-May-Be-Blocked-by-yogurt) • Benefits of Blueberries for the Brain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-blueberries-for-the-brain) • Benefits of Blueberries for Mood and Mobility (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-blueberries-for-mood-and-mobility) • Best Brain Foods: Berries and Nuts Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Best-Brain-Foods-Berries-and-Nuts-Put-to-the-Test) • Benefits of Blueberries for Heart Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-blueberries-for-heart-disease) What else may protect against or repair DNA damage? See: • DNA Protection from Broccoli (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dna-protection-from-broccoli/) • Antimutagenic Activity of Green Versus White Tea (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/antimutagenic-activity-of-green-versus-white-tea/) • Kiwifruit and DNA Repair (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/kiwifruit-and-dna-repair/) • Spicing Up DNA Protection (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/spicing-up-dna-protection/) • Carcinogen Blocking Effects of Turmeric (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/carcinogen-blocking-effects-of-turmeric/) Type 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance, but What Causes Insulin Resistance? (https://nutritionfacts.org/what-causes-insulin-resistance) Check out the video. And How May Plants Protect Against Diabetes? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-may-plants-protect-against-diabetes/) See also Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-for-diabetes), and my overview video How Not to Die from Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-diabetes/). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/blueberries-for-a-diabetic-diet-and-dna-repair and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/blueberries-for-a-diabetic-diet-and-dna-repair. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgments for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. Image credit: Tookapic / Pexels https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

The reversal of blindness due to hypertension and diabetes with Dr. Kempner’s rice and fruit diet demonstrates the power of diet to exceed the benefits of the best modern medicine and surgery have to offer.

The consumption of vinegar with meals was used as a folk remedy for diabetes before drugs came along, but it wasn’t put to the test until recently. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Are these videos chock full of info or what? This is a consequence of everyone’s kind support (https://nutritionfacts.org/donate/), enabling me to hire more than a dozen researchers to help me plow through the literature. I’m embarrassed to even look at some of the videos I did years ago. They’re so one-dimensional. I’m so grateful so many of you were able to see the potential and help NutritionFacts.org become what it is today. Onward and upward! What’s that about belly fat being reduced? You must have missed the first video in this vinegar series, Does Apple Cider Vinegar Help with Weight Loss? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-apple-cider-vinegar-help-with-weight-loss) I then covered Vinegar and Artery Function (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vinegar-and-artery-function) and will end with Optimal Vinegar Dose (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/optimal-vinegar-dose) and Vinegar Mechanisms and Side Effects (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vinegar-mechanisms-and-side-effects). Did I say reverse diabetes? Reverse heart disease? See, for example, Diabetes Reversal: Is it the Calories or the Food? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vinegar-mechanisms-and-side-effects) and Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/evidence-based-medicine-or-evidence-biased/) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-vinegar-help-with-blood-sugar-control and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: Daniel Lobo via Flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Inflammation is one of the main reasons why people with diabetes experience heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems and other, related complications. Now, in a surprise finding, researchers have discovered, in mice, that when certain immune cells can’t manufacture fat, the mice don’t develop diabetes and inflammation, even when consuming a high-fat diet.

For quite some time the link between juvenile onset diabetes (type 1) and cow’s milk consumption has been noted in the scientific literature. You can view 12 such references on our Cow’s Milk Page. In genetically susceptible individuals the consumption of cow’s milk triggers an autoimmune destruction of the beta-cells in the pancreas which produce insulin.

Diabetics suffering from nerve pain for years and then cured within days with a plant-based diet. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ What about reversing diabetic vision loss? See: Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-diabetic-retinopathy-be-reversed) Just thought trans fats were in partially hydrogenated junk food? See: Trans Fat In Meat And Dairy (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans-fat-in-meat-and-dairy/). Ideally we’d reduce our intake as low as possible (Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol: Tolerable Upper Intake of Zero http://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans-fat-saturated-fat-and-cholesterol-tolerable-upper-intake-of-zero/). The best way to prevent diabetic complications is to prevent the diabetes in the first place: • What Causes Insulin Resistance? (http://nutritionfacts.org/what-causes-insulin-resistance) • The Spillover Effect Links Obesity to Diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-spillover-effect-links-obesity-to-diabetes) • Lipotoxicity: How Saturated Fat Raises Blood Sugar (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lipotoxicity-how-saturated-fat-raises-blood-sugar) • Diabetes as a Disease of Fat Toxicity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Diabetes-as-a-Disease-of-Fat-Toxicity) • What Causes Diabetes? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-diabetes) • Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Plant-Based-Diets-and-Diabetes) • Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-for-diabetes) And then to reverse it: • Reversing Diabetes with Surgery (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reversing-diabetes-with-surgery) • Reversing Diabetes with Food (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reversing-diabetes-with-food) • Diabetes Reversal: Is it the Calories or the Food? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/13.diabetes-reversal-is-it-the-calories-or-the-food) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/curing-painful-diabetic-neuropathy and he'll try to answer it! Image Credits: Alexis via Pixabay. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Evidence for the presence of Enterovirus in pancreatic islets of type 1 diabetic patients has been found by researchers. This discovery is consistent with the theory that a low grade Enteroviral infection in the pancreatic islets contribute to disease progression in humans.

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This topic contains 221 study abstracts on Diabetes Mellitus: Type 1 indicating that the following substances may be helpful: Vitamin D, Alpha-Lipoic Acid, and Benfotiamine

Even when study subjects were forced to eat so much that they didn’t lose any weight, a plant-based diet can still reverse type 2 diabetes in a matter of weeks. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Although I have dozens of videos about diabetes, I think this is the single most powerful one I‘ve ever made. Please share this life-changing, life-saving video with anyone you know with type 2 diabetes or at risk for the dreaded disease. As far as I’m concerned, this should be required viewing for every healthcare practitioner. I wish I had seen this when I was a medical student! If these kinds of videos have benefited you or your loved ones, please consider becoming a monthly supporter (https://nutritionfacts.org/donate/). This is the final installment of a 3-part video series. If you missed the first two, check out Reversing Diabetes with Surgery (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reversing-diabetes-with-surgery) and Reversing Diabetes with Food (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reversing-diabetes-with-food). More on the remarkable work of Dr. Kempner here: • Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/kempner-rice-diet-whipping-us-into-shape/) • Drugs and the Demise of the Rice Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/drugs-and-the-demise-of-the-rice-diet/) • Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-diabetic-retinopathy-be-reversed/) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diabetes-reversal-is-it-the-calories-or-the-food and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: Gerd Altmann via Pixabay and Daniellehelm, S, and Alan Cleaver via Flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Diabetes Sentry is the industry unique FDA-approved hypoglycemic event detection device designed to notify you of significant temperature change and/or night sweats as a result of low blood sugar.

The consumption of sugar fruits can actually HELP regulate blood sugar!

The consumption of sugar fruits can actually HELP regulate blood sugar!

Adhering to a certain diet may help postpone the need for dialysis in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society ...